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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

Carl Sandburg
1959 Dell edition, first printing.
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$20One copy · this copy
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Book
VG+
Jacket
Very Good
Jacket note
The dust jacket grades Very Good.
Our ref
RCB-79a910af4533
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-79a910af4533 · 12 photographs of this copy
✓
Three-volume Dell Laurel boxed paperback set
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Copyright page states 'First Dell printing—October, 1959'
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Box drawings by Richard Powers noted on copyright page
examined on the copy in hand
✓
,000-word abridgement of the six-volume Harcourt work
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Not the Harcourt first edition of 1926/1939
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
Heavy edge wear and rubbing to slipcase, especially head and tail
noted on the copy in hand
2
Chipping/loss to slipcase corners and edges exposing board
noted on the copy in hand
3
Toning/tanning to page block and paper (age-typical browning)
noted on the copy in hand
4
Light soiling and edge wear to individual volume covers
noted on the copy in hand
5
Corner and edge wear to Volume 1 (blue) front cover
noted on the copy in hand
This copy
1st printing

What a true first shows: No — the true first edition of Sandburg's Lincoln was published by Harcourt, Brace: The Prairie Years (2 vols., 1926) and The War Years (4 vols., 1939). This is the 1959 Dell Laurel paperback three-volume boxed abridgement.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.